#13 Samantha John

Founder of Hopscotch

Age: 26

Samantha John is founder and CEO of Hopscotch Technologies. The startup recently launched its flagship app, where kids program their own games and animations. Before Hopscotch, John worked as a developer at Pivotal Labs. “I like to build cool stuff, hopefully some of it will make the world a better place,” she quote on Hopscotch web page. Her website Specialties include iOS development, Web development, getting things done, making decision, objective-C, Ruby on Rails, MySQL, MonogoDB, HTML, CSS, Javascript.

Priory to this she was Rails Developer at Pivotal Labs, entrepreneur at YouWeb November 2009. She has BS, Applied Mathematics, English and Comparative Literature degree from Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science, Columbia University.

What People say about her: "A generally badass programmer and advocate for people of all ages learning to program," Business Insider.

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